In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.

My house is basically like Halloween, 365 days a year, with my son.

I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six weeks with my band, crew and choreographer to put a new show together. We'd spend eight hours per day, seven days per week putting a show together to beat the last year's show.

We're a botanical garden that has display facilities 365 days a year. The Smithsonian doesn't. [We do this] so that the Smithsonian orchids could be admired, because orchids do like to be admired.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.